If I open my mouth, the country will shake: Khadse

Khadse was addressing a group of supporters in his home constituency in Jalgaon on Wednesday. “Though I have resigned in the wake of allegations against me, if I opened my mouth, the entire country will shake,” he claimed. 

The former minister also took potshots at Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, saying he (Khadse) was responsible for the BJP heading the saffron alliance in the state now by taking the “bold step” of snapping ties with Sena before the last assembly polls.

“If the alliance between the BJP and Sena would not have broken before the Assembly polls, Maharashtra would have had a Chief Minister of the Sena. I had taken the lead in getting the alliance broken due to which the CM today is of the BJP,” he said. 

Khadse, who was holding several key portfolios, including Revenue, in the state Cabinet, had resigned earlier this month over a series of allegations. The Fadnavis government has ordered a judicial probe into the allegations, which Khadse had stoutly refuted as baseless.

“There have long been allegations against Khadse that he has links with Dawood Ibrahim. He has himself now said he has information that can ‘shake’ the country. In all probability he has got crucial information from either Dawood or through some other terror outfit which he is in touch with, and the ATS should immediately take him into custody and get the information,” Congress spokesperson Al-Nasser Zakaria said.